234 Records of the S.A. Museum 



short. Maxillae long, tapering, arched, broadest at heel from whence the palpi 

 arise, yellow, clothed with long dark hair. Labium elongate, parallel-sided, 

 arched, yellow, clothed with long, dark hair, apex slightly curved, the base 

 strongly so. Sternum elongate, elliptical, narrowest in front, yellow, arched, 

 moderately hairy. Abdomen elHi)tical, yellow, not overhanging base of 

 cephalothcirax, strongly arched, densely clothed witli long hair. 



Taken from dead leaf-stem of tree-fern, on Mount Lidgbird. Type, 

 I. 11812. 



Family DRASSIDAE. 



HEMICLOEA PLUMEA L. Koch. (L.H.I.). 



HEMICLOEA SUNDEVALLI Thor. (L.H.I.). 



PRYNUS FULVUS L. Koch. (L.H.I.). 



DRASSODES SIGNATUS sp. nov. (K.I.). 



(PI. xxviii. figs. 11-l.v) 



d Cephalothiirax, 4 mm. long, 2-8 mm. broad: abdomen. 5-4 mm. 

 long, 2 '8 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax ovate, shining, reddish-brown. Pars cephalica 



strongly arched, segmental groa\e distinct ; clypeus moderately deep, 

 sloping forward ; ocular area broader than long. Pars thoracica strongly 

 arched, clothed with scattered black bristles, radial grooves and median fovea 

 distinct; marginal l)and broad. Eves in two rows of four each; anterior row 

 shortest, noticeably recurved, ]3osterior row very slightly procur\-ed ; anterior 

 median eyes largest, the laterals elli]itical and ]ilaced (ibliquelv; posterior 

 eyes e\-enly distributed. Legs robust, concoliirous with cejihalothorax, pilose, 

 armed \\ith rather long spines ; anterior pair l<ingest and strongest. Relative 

 lengths, 1. 4. 2, ,3. Palpi short, similar in colour, clothing and armature to 

 legs: genital 1)ulb large, pear-shaped, inner angle lobed, complicated. Falces 

 concolorous with cephalothorax, hairy, coniform, apices slightly divergent, hairy; 

 superior margin of the furrow of each falx armed with three prominent teeth, 

 and the inferior with two small ones; fang rather long, well curved. Maxillae 

 concolorous with cephalothorax. Labium concolorous with foregoing, long, 

 truncated at apex, grooved laterally anrl in front. Sternum elongate, arched, 

 truncated in front, acuminate posteriorly and terminating between fourth pair 

 of coxae, arched, shining, yellow, anterior and lateral angles dark brown. 

 .\bdomen ovate, arched, sujierior surface yellow with dark brown markings; 

 sides fuscous; inferior surface yellowish-grey, finely pencilled with two long 

 parallel lines and two short ones ; the former are close together, commence 



